Hush money case: Trump slams proceedings, calls it a ‘witch-hunt’

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Former President Donald Trump has fiercely criticised ongoing legal proceedings, labelling them as “witch hunt” following a New York judge’s decision to set January 10 as the date for his sentencing in the hush money case. 

In a posted on Truth Social Friday, Mr Trump further escalated his position against the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the court system, dismissing Justice Juan Merchan’s scheduled January 10 sentence as a politically motivated attack.

He said, “This illegitimate political attack is nothing but a rigged charade. “Acting” Justice Merchan, who is a radical partisan, just issued another order that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it. Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts. I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself – A despicable First Amendment Violation!.”

Mr Trump referenced various legal scholars and pundits who opposed to the case, saying “Every Legal Scholar and Pundit, including the highly respected, and sadly recently passed, David Rivkin, as well as Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, have unequivocally stated that the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt is a nonexistent case, which is not only barred by the Statute of Limitations but, on the merits, should never have been brought.”